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41. Artcap

    "Mugshots"

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: November 7, 2007

    It's tempting to adopt film noir slang when discussing Chris Crites' mugshots painted in acrylic on paper bags. The 1940s-era San Francisco criminals who stare at the viewer...

42. Sucka Free City

    BART to Change Its Maps

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Admit it: When a tourist family with more baggage than the Spanish conquistadors lugs its way onto a BART train and proceeds to loudly lament the difficulty of the route map,...

43. Reviewed

    Celebration

    The Modern Tribe (4AD)

    By Andy Beta

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The kaleidoscopic cover of Celebration's The Modern Tribe features an image of a chorus line straight out of the notebook of Hollywood choreographer and director Busby...

44. Let's Get Killed

    Citay Houses Ezra Feinberg's Little Kingdom of Chamber Metal

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Ezra Feinberg of San Francisco's Citay (say it like, say, Steve Perry would sing the word "city" — cit-aay) makes music that's been appropriately tagged "chamber metal."...

45. Stagecap

    Every Inch a King

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: November 7, 2007

    This show, while sweet and mildly funny, doesn't live up to the capable talents of its actresses or writer and director Gary Graves. It's a slight affair, following the story...

46. Letters

    Armenian Genocide Resolution Blog Posting at SFWeekly.com Draws Armenian Ire

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Turkish Dismay Blind hatred all around: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' recent adoption of a resolution calling on [U.S. House] Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to continue her...

47. Reviewed

    Herbie Hancock

    River: The Joni Letters (Verve)

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Noted jazz pianist records pop icon tribute, endures cries of 'sellout' from the jazz community, laughs all the way to the bank. You'd be forgiven for assuming Herbie Hancock's...

48. Bouncer

    Bouncer's Crush Busses Ex Right in Front of Her -- Sooo Messed Up

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: November 7, 2007

    This week's Bouncer will be a book report of sorts, because what I have considered to be my bible throughout adulthood is getting me through a rough patch right now, and...

49. Film

    Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem Cross the Badlands in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men

    The Coen Brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: November 7, 2007

    "Hold still" — it's what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it's the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn...

50. Artcap

    "Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech)"

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The combined eyes of Puerto Rican artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla seem to be able to see into the fourth dimension. The artists have been collaborating since...

51. Hear This

    Legendary Oddballs Ween Paint the Town Brown

    By Mark Keresman, John Garmon, Dave Pehling, Michael Alan Goldberg, Lily Moayeri and Ben Westhoff

    Published: November 7, 2007

    A case could be made for San Francisco's American Music Club being a truly American counterpart to Britain's Joy Division. Although they're sonically different, the two groups...

52. FilmCap

    Darfur Now

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Braun's profile of six people, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan. Featured are a sheik displaced...

53. Stagecap

    Use Both Hands

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Audience members shouldn't be deterred by Sleepwalkers Theatre's don't-give-a-shit facade. The company prints its handwritten programs on binder paper, uses the word "fuck"...

54. BeatBox

    Mocean Worker, KALX Matthew Africa, Pam the Funkstress, Ghettodisco

    By John Graham, Tamara Palmer and Evan James

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Adam Dorn — a.k.a. Mocean Worker — started as a DJ who drizzled brassy samples atop digital drum 'n' bass sequences. But this son of a jazz producer has recently...

55. Game On

    'Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles' Sucks, Bites, Not in Good Way

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that stretches over 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who've followed the...

56. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The Bluest Eye. Published in 1970, Toni Morrison's debut novel tells the story of an impoverished 11-year-old black girl's journey from self-loathing to madness via rape,...

57. DVDish

    New on DVD -- Sesame Street, Chinatown Collector's Edition, Sicko Collector's Edition

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in...

58. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount) Blame It on Fidel! (Koch Lorber) Blood Car (TLA) The Crown Prince (Koch) Deck the Halls (Fox) Election (Tartan) Flight of the...